Samantha Hayes has worked as a journalist and presenter across TV3’s news and current affairs programmes for nine years and currently presents and reports for the flagship weekly current affairs shows 3D and 3D Investigates and co-anchors the 10.30pm weeknight late news, Newsworthy.

Her stories have seen her venture into Mongrel Mob and Black Power gang headquarters, sit down in the recording studio with kiwi singer Lorde, camp in the Trans-Antarctic mountains and run a half marathon in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Samantha’s been lucky enough to report from Antarctica, Central America, the US, UK and Europe, India, Australia, the Pacific and most recently Africa.